{"id":117209,"date":"2024-02-28T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/28\/jack-antonoff-says-doubting-taylor-swifts-songwriting-skills-is-like-challenging-someones-faith-in-god\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:02:45","slug":"jack-antonoff-says-doubting-taylor-swifts-songwriting-skills-is-like-challenging-someones-faith-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/28\/jack-antonoff-says-doubting-taylor-swifts-songwriting-skills-is-like-challenging-someones-faith-in-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Antonoff says doubting Taylor Swift&#8217;s songwriting skills is like &#8220;challenging someone&#8217;s faith in God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-28\/Getty_TaylorSwiftandJackonstage_022824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/TAS23\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jack Antonoff<\/strong> isn&#8217;t just a singer, songwriter and Grammy-winning producer of acclaimed albums by <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>,<strong> Lana Del Rey<\/strong>,<strong> Lorde<\/strong> and more. He&#8217;s also willing to publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackantonoff\/status\/1485722947176259584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defend<\/a> the artists he works with \u2014 like when he dissed <strong>Blur<\/strong>&#8216;s<strong> Damon Albarn<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2022-01-23\/damon-albarn-blur-gorillaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suggesting<\/a> that Taylor didn&#8217;t write her own songs and called his criticism &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2022\/02\/jack-antonoff-damon-albarns-taylor-swift-songwriting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trumpian<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2024-02-28\/jack-antonoff-taylor-swift-bleachers-lana-del-rey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, Jack says, &#8220;<span>I\u2019m a little b**** sometimes. But you come after my friend Taylor, you\u2019re toast to me.\u201d He then says doubting Taylor&#8217;s songwriting skills &#8220;is like challenging someone\u2019s faith in God. You just don\u2019t go there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jack also discusses\u00a0<strong>Kanye West<\/strong>, who he says &#8220;just needs his diaper changed so badly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m so incredibly bored when someone doesn\u2019t have the sauce anymore, so they go elsewhere to shock,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;It\u2019s just a remarkable waste of space.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In other Taylor news, she took to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C35HpNEu0wL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Instagram to thank her fans in Sydney<\/span><\/a><span>, Australia, after wrapping up four shows in that city. &#8220;W<\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xvs91rp xo1l8bm x5n08af x10wh9bi x1wdrske x8viiok x18hxmgj xt0psk2\" dir=\"auto\">hat a whirlwind of endless magical moments with you,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I\u2019m so grateful that we got to be the first tour to play Accor Stadium 4 times.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xvs91rp xo1l8bm x5n08af x10wh9bi x1wdrske x8viiok x18hxmgj xt0psk2\" dir=\"auto\">She added that some of her favorite moments during those shows were &#8220;the chaotic acoustic mashups&#8221; and &#8220;the crowds that were louder (singing AND screaming) than I thought humanly possible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xvs91rp xo1l8bm x5n08af x10wh9bi x1wdrske x8viiok x18hxmgj xt0psk2\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I want to thank all of the Aussie fans for being so positive and passionate, so funny and wild and FUN. Love you forever,&#8221; she continued, acknowledging those who attended her shows in Melbourne as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xvs91rp xo1l8bm x5n08af x10wh9bi x1wdrske x8viiok x18hxmgj xt0psk2\" dir=\"auto\">Taylor&#8217;s next shows are in Singapore, starting March 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/TAS23\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Jack Antonoff isn&#8217;t just a singer, songwriter and Grammy-winning producer of acclaimed albums by Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lorde and more. He&#8217;s also willing to publicly defend the artists he works with \u2014 like when he dissed Blur&#8216;s Damon Albarn for suggesting<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/28\/jack-antonoff-says-doubting-taylor-swifts-songwriting-skills-is-like-challenging-someones-faith-in-god\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}